[Philippines] 'E-brides' seek to escape poverty / ABS-CBN Interactive, Sep 2005

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=15784
Ambika Bhushan
"An estimated 50,000 to 100,000 Filipinas have signed up to matchmaking sites, seeking romance and more importantly a ticket out of poverty. It was a ticket that was banned under the country's 1990 Anti-Mail Order Bride Law, but anti-trafficking activists say the Internet has effectively bypassed that law despite a revision in 2003 that sought to ban e-mail order brides."